Time to celebrate . . who doesn’t love to give? We’re giving this beautiful Guatemalan tote bag to one lucky person. We will select one name randomly on Saturday, August 22. Just leave a comment on our Facebook Page – what do you like best about this bag? (more…)View On WordPress
Celebrate Our Storefront with this Guatemalan Tote Bag
We're giving this beautiful Guatemalan tote bag to one lucky person.
Rare Stetson China (USA) Salad Plates, Stylized Tulip in Center Field with Black Air Brush Border… The Black and Pink Floral is distinctive of thenew cool of modern life in the suburban 50s!
Reading the Cover of the Book
There are books and then, there are covers or dust jackets for hardbound books. I recently came across quite a few books published in the late 1940s with dust jackets intact. They are intriguing, interesting and nice to behold. Can we judge a book by its cover, maybe not. But we can quickly get an…
Dickens, Coal Miners and The Spirit of Christmas
Lately, I have wondered about the life of a miner. This comes as no surprise since Putnam and Speedwell occupies a house that was once a home for a miner and his family at Eclipse Company Town. The houses are cute; but they are small, it seems to me, for a family. I wonder about…
Rare People and Rare Books
The film, Fading Gigilo opens with Woody Allen carefully tissue wrapping beautiful leather bound books. The camera pans to empty shelves. He is closing the bookstore first established by his grandfather. He laments, This is the end of an era my friend, only rare people buy rare books. Soon after that scene, I lost…
The Gift: The Story of The Homer Laughlin Plate
Almost, thirty years ago, a package arrived postmarked from the Homer Laughlin Company, Newell, West Virginia quite unexpectedly. A few days before, we were at the International Housewares Exhibition in Chicago. It was a big deal, a really big deal. Now, as then, it was the biggest trade show in the country at one of the…
Selling Pieces of the Past, II
Hard to believe that it has been one year since Putnam and Speedwell planted roots in Athens . . . a few thoughts about growing pains! We rented the space at Eclipse Company Town, an old mining town, last November about ten days before Thanksgiving. I was thinking that we could whip it into…
The Romance of a Christmas Mouse
The Romance of a Christmas MouseChristmas Mouse Featured in Romantic Homes Magazine Hmmmm, I said, this looks like spam. Quickly, I clicked log out and returned to my real work. Later in the day, there was another notification from Etsy about a convo. Hello Valerie, I am gathering materials for a vintage Christmas photo shoot to be featured…
The Romance of a Christmas Mouse
Hmmmm, I said, this looks like spam. Quickly, I clicked log out and returned to my real work. Later in the day, there was another notification from Etsy about a convo. Hello Valerie, I am gathering materials for a vintage Christmas photo shoot to be featured in Romantic Homes magazine. Would it be possible to use your…